Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:34:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc failed? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970610183318.21181A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970610172640.172A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm trying to look at some pretty large quicktime movies on my box with > xanim, and I keep crashing with this line: > > lambic:/a % xanim middle.qt > XAnim Rev 2.70.6.4 by Mark Podlipec (c) 1991-1997 > QT rle: malloc failed > lambic:/a % > > --> According to top this happens when I hit 128MB in size, every time. > I've removed /etc/login.conf, I've unlimited, but...I can't seem to get > past this. It could be a problem with xanim I suppose...but could it be > something else? > > Thanks, > > Brian Actually, if you remove login.conf, you get the defaults, which are pretty small. It is better to use login.conf to set things to infinity. Also, back in 2.1, I ran into a problem where the max data size could not be increased greater than physical memory. I wonder if this could your problem too. Tom
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